For the purpose of this title, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLES. Vehicles of the Fire Department, police vehicles, and such ambulances and emergency vehicles of municipal departments or public service corporations as are designated or authorized by the Chief of Police.
CROSSWALK. The portion of a roadway ordinarily included within the prolongation of curb and property lines at intersections, whether marked or not, or any other portion of a roadway clearly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface of the street.
CURB. The extreme edge, or lateral boundary of a roadway, whether marked by curbing or not.
DEPARTMENT. The Police Department of the City of Webster.
DOUBLE-PARKING. The standing of a vehicle upon a street at the rear of another vehicle which is parked diagonally at the curb, or the standing of a vehicle upon the street alongside and parallel to another vehicle which is parked parallel at the curb.
DRIVER or OPERATOR. Any person who is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
LEFT HAND SIDE OF A STREET. The side to the left of the vehicle as it moves forward.
MOTOR VEHICLE. Every vehicle which is self-propelled.
PARKING. The standing of a vehicle, whether attended or unattended upon a roadway, otherwise then temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers.
PEDESTRIAN. Any person afoot.
PRIVATE ROAD OR DRIVEWAY. Every road or driveway not open to the use of the public vehicular travel.
RIGHT-HAND SIDE OF A STREET. The side to the right of the vehicle as it moves forward.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. The privilege of the immediate use of the street.
ROADWAY. The portion of a street devoted to vehicular traffic.
SEMI-TRAILER. Every vehicle of the trailer type so designed and used in conjunction with a motor vehicle that some part of its own weight and that of its own load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle.
SIDEWALK. The portion of the street between the curb lines and the adjacent property lines.
STREET. Any street, avenue, boulevard, alley, highway, or public place set apart for the public vehicular travel.
STREET INTERSECTION. The portion of a street where it joins another at an angle, whether or not it crosses the other street, and shall include the full width of the street between the curb lines, extended, of the intersection streets.
THROUGH STREETS. Streets, or parts thereof, that have been so designated and marked, by order of the City Council.
TRAILER. Every vehicle without motive power designed for carrying property or passengers wholly on its own structure and for being drawn by a motor vehicle.
VEHICLE. Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a street; provided, that for the purpose of this title, a bicycle or an animal that is being ridden, driven, or led shall be deemed a VEHICLE.
(Prior Code, § 12-1-1)